I live 15 minutes outside my local city limits and I'm only 45 minutes
from downtown Nashville. My only internet option is satellite. I pay
$160 a month for a service that isn't as good as the $30 DSL service I
used to have when I lived inside the city limits. That may be because
I'm served by an AT&T remote office rather than the ILEC that services
the areas at both ends of my street. You'd think cell service and
wireless service would be better because I'm only a mile from the
closest cell tower. That's not the case however. Interestingly enough no
on seems to claim that tower - they all tell me I'm not in a good
service area because the tower is so far away. Go figure.....so if you
ask me, the people with 20-80 acres probably aren't getting much of
anything because the people with an average of 5 or less acres aren't
even getting decent service!
My guess is it's probably going into someone's slush fund because its
NOT going into providing decent service!
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2020-08-23 01:18 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
I'd never really looked at the trend, but wow, it's gone up 5x in 20
years. I suppose this correlates with bringing out morre rural
internet services? In the last few years, in nearby Prescott, I've
been seeing signs and ads for 100M+ service to the middle of nowhere.
Places where each house has 20-80 acres. Must be paid by this, I
assume.
https://files.taxfoundation.org/20181210115844/FF626_3.png
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM Collin Anderson
<col...@averysmallbird.com> wrote:
USAC sets the contribution factor based on the needs of the USF
programs. There's a few articles out there about how market changes
-- e.g. decrease revenues -- have increased the rate. But these
changes and their justifications are public records:
https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:24 AM Carlos Alvarez
<caalva...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm curious how this gets decided and changed. Is it the FCC acting
on its own? Pushed by legislators or the white house? Does anyone
have a say in it?
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:20 AM Mike Hammett <voice...@ics-il.net>
wrote:
Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com
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From: "Peter Beckman" <beck...@angryox.com>
To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 10:15:54 PM
Subject: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss
Holy Crap. Reviewing my bills for July -- FUSF jumped from 19.6% to
26.5% !!!
For Q3 2020.
1Q 2009 was 9.5%.
How much is being collected and what actually is this money going
toward?
And WHY do they need such a high percentage?!?
Discuss. (Or yell at me that this isn't the place, I couldn't find a
voiceops-discuss@)
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